Best Buy launch a big sale on BlackBerry PlayBooks . “ Everything ’s fine guys ! ” enjoin BlackBerry . Best Buy dumps its PlayBook cache and does n’t seem concerned in supersede them . “ Um , guys ? Is this what expiry feel like ? ”
The folk atElectronistahave put together an interesting report : After slashing $ 300 off the monetary value of a PlayBook , Best Buy has apparently sold out its stock list in a subject of days . Not surprising in and of itself ; that ’s what cut-rate sale are for . But what ’s curious is that while normally when Best Buy sells out of a merchandise , they exit the page up with a “ temporarily unavailable ” message or some such thing , in this case , they ’re altogether removing the PlayBook varlet . As of justly now you could only discover PlayBook accessories , and a very circumscribed measure ofrefurbished models .
Does this mean the plug is finally being yank on the PlayBook ? Other major retailers like Staples and Office Max are also demonstrate supply in extremely special measure , too . But RIM is clearly send toadding native e-mail / calendar supportin February . Are retailer just holding off until then to see if there ’s renewed demand ? Or is brim working overtime on a intersection whose emptor have given up ? Either style , the slowly tranquillize death rattle continues . [ ElectronistaviaTechMeme ]
https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-blackberry-playbooks-massively-late-nativ-5862201
UPDATE : It ’s even worse than we thought . masses that had already ordered and bear for their PlayBooks ( and were expending them to be shipped now - ish ) are finding that their recognition add-in are being refund and their orders are being cancelled . People in Best Buy ’s forums are claiming that they were assure Best Buy is “ overextended ” and there are even some report card that some stores have cancelled all of their orders . Curiouser and curiouser , say Alice.[Electronista ]
UPDATE 2 : This just in . prescribed statement time .
start Sunday , November 20th , Best Buy offered $ 300 instant savings to the BlackBerry PlayBook , reducing the price to $ 299.99 and $ 199.99 for the 32 GB and 16 GB , respectively . customer have responded very positively to this short - terminal figure packaging available until Dec. 3 and , as a issue , we are currently sell out of our inventory . We will have additional units uncommitted in the near future , at which clip customers will be able-bodied to purchase the devices online at www.bestbuy.com .
So , there you have it . It ’s not the end - knell it seemed it could be . plausibly .
you could keep up with Brent Rose , the writer of this post , onFacebook , Google+orTwitter .
good BuyBlackBerryPlaybookRetail
Daily Newsletter
Get the best technical school , science , and culture news in your inbox day by day .
intelligence from the future , fork over to your present .
You May Also Like
